Need advice about an upcoming wedding.....

[Partisan1983]

My wife's grandfather is getting married next month after being a widower for the last 11 years. Nobody in the family likes the woman, but everyone respects grandpa and he is a good man too.


My wife is his oldest grandchild, and him and I get along great.

What should we get for a wedding gift?

.....or do we even get them anything?

We have no idea of the etiquette in this situation.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

[ubersoldate]

No registry?

Its hard to say what people I dont know should get more people I dont know for a personal gift.
But I do kind of want to interject some humor, and say, Viagra!

[Vorkutinetz]

I am with Uber on this one. It is hard to recommend gifts for people you dont know. Do they drink alcohol? A bottle of good wine, port, brandy, whiskey, vodka etc. perhaps?

[Batwing]

get him some high quality earplugs,sounds like he may need them :D

seriously though I like the booze idea also,,high quality booze of course,it can be used as a substitute for ear plugs as well

[Paladin]

Partisan,

You may want to consider offering to work with the bride to be to establish a gift registry. Would make it easy on all...

[FunkyPertwee]

condoms?

[chiak47]

Get him a hooker...

[Partisan1983]

No registry.....I don't even know if either one of 'em know what a gift registry is. They are mighty old.

He used to be an occasional drinker, but that was 35+ years ago. I wish one of the few Class III dealers we have in the state had a BAR (he was a BAR man in Korea). I think he would really love to see/hold one again. I very highly doubt he could physically shoot it....poor old man is dying of cancer. He's too old for treatment and too old for surgery, so IMHO he's living his last years to the fullest as best he can. Though I cannot figure out why he's marrying.....must be for companionship or some such shit.


I think we'd all understand it better if she wasn't such a bitch/asshole.

[Paladin]

I just rethought this. Buy him your favorite handgun.

[swampdragon]

His and her burial plots and them tell them to fuck off.

[HDR]

What should we get for a wedding gift?

.....or do we even get them anything?

We have no idea of the etiquette in this situation.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

I can't do that well for myself and you're asking me?? :D


His and her burial plots and them tell them to fuck off.

I can tell you were an NCO and involved with training.. :laugh:

[mriddick]

I'd say a small gift showing your respect for the man and his choice in a bride.

[swampdragon]

I can tell you were an NCO and involved with training.. :laugh:

True.
Got a prob with that?
I was just trying to think of a gift that nobody else got them yet.
:biggrina:

[Krupski]

My wife's grandfather is getting married next month after being a widower for the last 11 years. Nobody in the family likes the woman, but everyone respects grandpa and he is a good man too.


My wife is his oldest grandchild, and him and I get along great.

What should we get for a wedding gift?

.....or do we even get them anything?

We have no idea of the etiquette in this situation.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Cash always works... but if you choose this route, give an appropriate amount.

[AKTexas]

Cash always works... but if you choose this route, give an appropriate amount.

For old folks a quarter would be an appropriate amount.

[mriddick]

Money IMO is the last thing most "old folks" need :)

[slamfire51]

My Dad remarried adter Mom died.
Crap, both had everything they would ever need. We ended up giving them our approval.
I suppose that meant more than gifts.

[mriddick]

My Dad remarried adter Mom died.
Crap, both had everything they would ever need. We ended up giving them our approval.
I suppose that meant more than gifts.

My mother did likewise, her and my stepfather got alot of resturant gift certificate cards since they too had everything 3X over. I always figured when I gave them a resturant gift certificate if nothing else it got them out of the house and doing stuff VS setting at home.

[Partisan1983]

I like the gift certificate idea.


I'll run that by my wife and father in law.

Thanks guys.

[yankeedog]

No registry.....I don't even know if either one of 'em know what a gift registry is. They are mighty old.

poor old man is dying of cancer. He's too old for treatment and too old for surgery, so IMHO he's living his last years to the fullest as best he can. Though I cannot figure out why he's marrying.....must be for companionship or some such shit.
I think we'd all understand it better if she wasn't such a bitch/asshole.

Did everyone miss this or what?
Hes old and sick, does he have a little cabbage growing under the pillow????
Who in their right mind would marry death unless theres something in it for themselves???
She just stole your inheritance boy!!!!!!!!!

[Partisan1983]

There is a prenup, that has already been drawn up and what not.

My father in law has made sure of it.

[Spiderhole]

Offer to throw the bachelor party!

[mrkalashnikov]

I've been to a few old folks 2nd or 3rd weddings and they all went in the crapper fast. Hope your wife's grandpa has better luck but I would advise him to get a bulletproof prenup.

[mrkalashnikov]

There is a prenup, that has already been drawn up and what not.

My father in law has made sure of it.

This is a good thing.